Income of wind producers

[Kristina.Haaskjold]

Dear all, 

Is there any attribute in VEDA that can give me the total income of a producer over the lifetime? 
E.g. I want to examine the total income of a wind producer over its lifetime in comparison to its total cost for different scenarios. 

Best,
Kristina

[Antti-L]

I am not aware of a VEDA attribute giving the total income of a producer over the lifetime, but in TIMES you have the somewhat related option for getting the "value flows" of a process reported in Val_Flo:
   RPT_OPT('FLO','3')=1;

That gives you the revenues from the produced electricity by process vintage, but they are annual values for each Milestone year, and so you would need to accumulate them over the lifetime. Cumulative NPV of the revenues over the lifetime could be obtained simply by doing a sum-product with Time_NPV. However, this reporting option is not available under stochastic mode.

[Kristina.Haaskjold]

I am not aware of a VEDA attribute giving the total income of a producer over the lifetime, but in TIMES you have the somewhat related option for getting the "value flows" of a process reported in Val_Flo:
   RPT_OPT('FLO','3')=1;

That gives you the revenues from the produced electricity by process vintage, but they are annual values for each Milestone year, and so you would need to accumulate them over the lifetime. Cumulative NPV of the revenues over the lifetime could be obtained simply by doing a sum-product with Time_NPV. However, this reporting option is not available under stochastic mode.

Thank you Antti, that is much quicker than exporting prices and production for each hour and manually calculating it. However, I have issues when adding RPT_OPT('FLO','3')=1 to the RUN FILE, where it seems to be overwritten by the old RUN FILE. After running the scenario, the line with RPT_OPT('FLO','3')=1 is gone and the Val_Flo does not show in attributes. How can I avoid this? 

[Antti-L]

TIMES attributes can usually be specified in VEDA templates, see example SysSettings, sheet reporting options:

https://github.com/kanors-emr/Model_Demo_Adv_Veda/blob/master/SysSettings.xlsx

[Kristina.Haaskjold]

Thank you Antti for the helpful and quick reply!